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RefNoA/0164
LevelItem
TitleNewton's Sundial
ArtistButterworth; Charles; printmaker
Date1896
DescriptionDrawing of the stone sundial said to have been cut by Sir Isaac Newton, shown in its presentation box. The box lid is open, with a print of Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire (its original location) on the inner lid.

The work is inscribed in pencil: “Solar Dial made by Sir Isaac Newton, when a boy, at Woolsthorpe.”
ObjectNameDrawing
AccessStatusOpen
AdminHistoryDrawn for an article by Herbert Rix (1850-1906), assistant secretary of the Royal Society. The illustration was made to be engraved by the Butterworth and Heath company (active 1856-1896) and published in the Leisure Hour for 1896.
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